Is the idea that God can erase His memory a common understanding?
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Heb 8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
Mic 7:19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
Heb 10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Rev 12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
While many denominations have ideals like omniscience we preclude the ability of God to forget something not all do. In Word of Faith circles and many other evangelical denominations we call God forgetting things the sea of forgetfulness and many of us literally believe that God cannot remember and has forgotten. Remembering bad things and making accusations based on those negative things is a work of the devil and not something which God takes part in.
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The best explanation of this I have ever heard is by Jay Adams in his book on forgiveness. God does not change, and His memory does not change. Instead, Adams argues that God is not-remembering, instead of forgetting. That is, God is promising not to bring these sins against you ever again.
Adams goes on to say that forgiveness in general is a three-fold promise. When you forgive someone, you are making three promises:
- You will not bring the offence up again to the person who offended you.
- You will not bring the offence up again to anyone else.
- You will not bring the offence up again to yourself.
I have found this definition of forgiveness to be extremely helpful.
I do not think the majority of Bible-believing, gospel-preaching denominations believe that God forgets anything. God is omniscient, and will always be omniscient. Now your Open Theists might believe that God can forget things, or that He doesn't know everything; and some of your mainline denominations that have departed from Scriptural teaching might also believe this.
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